In the midst of Wu's coma, still from Tan Jiao's perspective

  After a while, Wu's fever finally subsided and he fell into a deep sleep. I stroked his forehead and thought to myself, did I just save his life? Shouldn't he be grateful and offer himself to me in return?

  No, this man can give his life for me, but he won't give his heart to me.

  I smiled self-deprecatingly and couldn't help but reach out to touch his thick and dry lips.

  Feng Yan's door opened again, and the man walked out first, holding Feng Yan's hand. Feng Yan had changed into a different set of clothes. Even with my limited experience with men and women, I could sense the unusual atmosphere between them. Feng Yan's face was flushed with a few shades of red, while the man didn't even bother to wear his mask, with a hint of a smile at the corner of his lips.

  However, the villain has revealed his true face, which is not a good omen. It means he has nothing to fear.

  He had only taken two steps when the man seemed to be reluctant to part, turned around and pinned Feng Yan against the wall again, kissing her. The two of them kissed very fiercely, his hands were also wandering all over her body at the same time. What kind of feeling was that? It was as if he wanted to devour her. Very passionate, but I, as a bystander, could feel that the passion carried a certain desperation. Suddenly, I had a strange thought: He's so bad, why do I think he's really moved by emotions?

  Is he being taken advantage of?

  No way of knowing.

  "You were willing to be with me back then, didn't think I had such great abilities, did you?" he asked.

  Feng Yan raised her face, still with a faint smile: "Yes, I didn't expect it."

  He stared at her for a few seconds, then asked: "You hate them so much, the old man bullies you every day, and you've said that living here is like being in prison. The old man is like Empress Dowager Cixi, taking pleasure in spiritually abusing his daughter-in-law. Now I'm avenging you, avenging this miserable half-life of yours, aren't you happy?"

  Feng Yan said: "I'm happy. But actually, thinking about it, she didn't do anything excessive to me either. She provided me with good food and clothes, but she interfered in my work, wanting me to quit my job and become a housewife. She also tried every means to cut off my connections with my old friends, only allowing me to socialize with the wives she deemed suitable. She just looked down on me, she was too empty, and all she needed was someone to manipulate at will without letting others know. Do you know that even my sex life with her son was controlled by her? She indulged him in having affairs outside, thinking that this way her son wouldn't be completely controlled by me... Ha! I'm telling you, she's really ridiculous. Later on, I just laughed at her every day."

  He touched her face and said: "Then why don't you leave this house?"

  Feng Yan suddenly glared at him like a little girl and said, "I told you, she didn't do anything wrong. And I'm always stuck with her, first because I was pregnant, and my husband is still pretty good to me. Later, I lost my job and friends, step by step, I had nowhere to go. It wasn't until later that I realized all of this was part of her plan. She wanted to control everyone's life in the family and remake them according to her own will. Not just me, but also my husband and Baozhu. You think Baozhu married Zheng Zhiwei because she liked him? No, it was a punishment from her mother-in-law. Chen Baozhu studied mechanics or chemistry, I don't know which, but that's what suited her personality. But her mother-in-law arranged for her to work in finance at a large state-owned enterprise. And Chen Baozhu and my husband were raised to be obedient, they didn't dare resist. Later, Chen Baozhu fell in love with a poor boy, a girl who was so timid she never dared to fight back, but that time she loved him to death. You can imagine what happened next, her mother-in-law used every vicious trick in the book and took advantage of Baozhu's filial piety to crush the two of them until they had no hope left. So later on, I just got used to it. As long as I occasionally put up with her and my cowardly husband, I have my daughter, and I can live my own life. Su Wei, I'm glad you're here."